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The “Urgent Talk” series provides a platform for discussion around artists, curators, critics, activists and others across the globe engaged in significant, innovative work that demands urgent attention.

This edition welcomes Daniel Buren, a French artist who has been a pioneering figure in conceptual art. Taking his solo exhibition Third Eye, situated works at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (March 17 - May 9, 2026) as a starting point, we will hear from the artist about his in situ works using his signature 8.7 cm-wide vertical stripes - his “visual tool” - which he has consistently pursued since the 1960s, and his artistic practice spanning more than half a century.

Date and Time

19:00-20:30, Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (Doors open:18:30)

Appearing

Daniel Buren (Artist)

Discussant

Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)

Organizer

Mori Art Museum

Support

SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Daniel Buren

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) in 1938. In the mid-1960s, he began to create paintings that radically questioned the relationship between background (support medium) and form (painting). In 1967, he abandoned his studio to favor work in situ, starting from the street, then the gallery, the museum, the landscape or the architecture. He uses alternating white and colored vertical stripes 8.7 cm wide, which he calls his “visual tool.” His in situ works play with points of view, spaces, colors, light, movement, and the surrounding environment, radically transforming the sites. In 1986, he realized his most controversial public commission Les Deux Plateaux at the Palais-Royal in Paris, today classified as a “historical monument.” In the same year, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. In 2007, he received the Praemium Imperiale for Painting.